Thursday, July 19, 2012

BATMAN landed PIGMAN on THE DAILY SHOW

July 2012: On the eve of the release of latest Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, I want to mention that it was my Batman cartoon to the left which led to my appearance on The Daily Show last year. Below is the text that originally accompanied this cartoon on NewsRealBlog. I think it was my word "IslamiCrap" which really got their attention:

Right after 9/11, which of the following would be more likely: that Batman takes on al Qaeda or, rather, that he recruits a Muslim to be one of his “Global Batmen”? Of course the former, but not in a world where “Islam means peace.” Frank Miller worked on a graphic novel called “Holy Terror, Batman” as his response to 9/11, pitting Batman against al Qaeda. But for reasons that are still unclear, “The Fixer” has now taken the place of Batman in Miller’s project, while DC Comics has Batman recruiting a Muslim to be his French counterpart.

What have Muslims done to earn this honor? The same thing Islam has done to deserve being equated with peace in Western culture.

I personally don’t think Batman is built to take on butchers like al Qaeda, since DC Comics thinks having Batman kill would kill the character. (Heroes don’t kill? What of our heroic soldiers?) But I sure as hell don’t think Batman should be used to sell the Big Lie that “Islam means peace.” And, believe it or not, this is the second time in two months that Batman has been used in Islamic propaganda, the first being in the unreadable JLA/the 99 #1. At this rate, Superman converting to Islam is inevitable.

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Bosch Fawstin, IllustWriter

I’m an Eisner nominated cartoonist and my current work is my series, The Infidel, featuring Pigman. I have three chapters currently available on Amazon Kindle and ComiXology.
I’m the winner of the AFDI Mohammad Cartoon Contest organized by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, where two jihadists attempted to murder as many of us as they could, but were cut down by a cop in Garland, Texas. The attack made the contest far bigger than it would have been otherwise and helped expose far too many among us to be enemies of free speech. It’s a sad day in America when I felt the need to tweet that “I’m a Radical for Free Speech”. I appeared on a number of TV news shows after the attack, but they refused to show my winning cartoon, so I decided not to appear any longer without it. The contest and the attack brought my work great attention, good and bad, including death threats, and has now afforded me opportunities to reach a bigger audience. I recently signed a contract with a book publisher for a big project that will be announced in 2016. Stay tuned.
Update: I appeared on John Stossel’s Fox News Special, “Censored in America”, with my winning cartoon.